Categories: Telecom

Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on March 17

In the global technology industry's pecking order, Japanese consumer electronics companies long ago surrendered their top spot to more nimble competitors like Samsung Electronics and Apple. Many of the country's...

Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on September 07

In the U.S., Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies is encountering new opposition from Republican senators. Huawei has had its share of political problems in India, too, with New Delhi...

Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on June 05

Not often that you see someone comparing China’s telecom sector unfavorably to India’s. China has the world’s largest cellular market and, in China Mobile, the world’s largest cellular operator. India...

Posted by: Kenji Hall on August 13

When the iPhone arrived in Japan, skeptics said it would be a disappointment because Japanese handsets were already as good as Apple's offering, while Mac-philes predicted it would spur Japanese phone makers to come up with fancier designs. They were both wrong.

Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on September 26

Gloria Arroyo, the Philippine president, has cancelled a controversial $330 million deal that would have called for Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE to supply equipment to the government’s planned broadband...

Posted by: Ihlwan Moon on February 28

South Korea’s mobile carrier KTF on March 1 launched the world’s first “nationwide” network enabling seamless video conferencing on the go. The network, using the technology called High-Speed Downlink Packet...

Posted by: Brian Bremner on January 30

Posted by: Kenji Hall on January 03

Mention fiber-optic connections to many Netizens, and you'll likely get their adrenaline pumping. At speeds of 100 megabits per second, fiber-optic technology promises to eliminate the wait for Web pages...